[h2][center][color=fff200]Saef Harken
Lenuria[/color][/center][/h2]

It was actually several of his men that spotted the ambush predators first. Saef himself was too busy trying to figure out which of the brilliantly radiating houses was the brightest to notice the heat signatures of the "rocks" they sat upon. One by one his squad leaders called in the anomaly, pulling the Thaumaturge from his musings and directing him towards the possible threat. 

They were on the ground by now, having landed nearby to proceed at a more sedate pace. So Saef had plenty of time to realize that the small hills the buildings sat atop were quite alive. And when one takes into account the fact that just about everything in the Nexus had some way to kill you the chances of them being friendly lifeforms dropped immensely. With a sigh he spoke into the comms.

[color=fff200]"I want a full coordinated barrage on them ASAP. Bring out the missiles as well, it looks like they have some pretty hard shells."[/color]

Five minutes later all fifty men and women opened up on the crustaceans from seventy meters away. Hypervelocity missiles left trails of bubbles as they streaked into the rock like shells of their targets. Explosions erupted through the still water and were joined by the whine of the hundreds of high energy light packets following. None of the giant shellfish were likely to reach their attackers through the killbox that had been set up.

An interesting thing they had found while setting up said killbox. Apparently the entire city was booby trapped. Probably had something to do with that giant web of red lightning that had jumped over the area earlier. It hadn't done much other than slow them down of course. There was a limit to how well you could hide things with such a wide scale move. The technological traps were easily spotted by sensors and destroyed. The arcane threats were a bit trickier. Those that weren't spotted ahead of time slammed into the shields of some poor soldier, draining them but not doing much else.